The best way to ruin a lucid dream

[Zoth]

I'm suffering insomnias again, and I decided to put lucid dreaming in the shelf for a few days. Woke up today after 6 hours, and was so annoyed that I decided I would only leave bed after I slept properly. So after 1hour, I finally drift off into sleep... I'm all happy dreaming that I'm taking a psychology class, and I'm asking the teacher what research I should be doing in order to raise my progress. Some girl looks at me, makes a joke and I smile to her. Suddenly, I check a guy in the front of the class that looks like a old friend of my. I quickly look at the board and see his name. It's him! I find myself at an empty class room, pretty much identical to the previous one, but I'm still thinking about my old friend. "Why isn't he here? I must be dreaming, because I recall exactly that he was right in this class" looked at my hands and due some weird visual effect, they looked tiny and weird. In response to the beginning of the lucid dream, the scenarios starts to get darker and darker, but it's all good. A quick focus on the details of my hands allows me to increase clarity without any problem, and now the scenario is crystal clear and vivid, just a small remainder of fog in my head, but I start organizing my thoughts. I'm gonna cut the slack and reserve this lucid for a task of the month, as I never did one. I walk outside the classroom into a long corridor, typical school location. I want to find a person to give her a flower, and I see a very pale girl with a white dress and black hair. But since I'm here, I know who I want to see: another old friend. I focus my sight in her body and beging to intentionalize that I want her to transform into a friend of my. The skin of the DC becomes darker, the hair starts to reduce in size, and my friend shows up. I quickly grab her hand and see a janitor. This area doesn't seem appropriate, I don't want to deal with more than one dc at a time. I take her to a room that is completely empty and looks like a storage. But it's okay, I can work it out just like that room scene in Cloud Atlas (I can recall the scene exactly). I take a hand to the side, look at the wall and now there's a door. I know it's filled with flowers, but I'm not sure if there's something else. I take my coat and get in my knees, while my friend looks at me without saying a word. I grab the handle and am about to open the door..... BANG. Someone is ringing at the door and it doesn't belong to my dream. I know that because I know precisely who is ringing at the door, and I can't not answer. I quickly focus on one spot of the wall and the dream goes boom! I get up, without dressing any clothes, and run to the door. The man looks at me but after realizing I just woke up, he smiles and handles me my package. So, like I said, best way to ruin a lucid dream

[VagalTone]

i will buy Daniels's book soon. its a pitty these books are not translated to portuguese...so many shit books translated to portuguese, why not a good one ?? sometimes i wonder why i didnt know about LD earlier...was i close minded?? perhaps, but i couldnt find any book, nobody cares about dreaming..i didnt care also...I laughed when i read a meditation book saying you could meditate in dreams. i imediately supposed it was a joke intended for people not to become so attached to meditation. Laberge's, Patricia Garfield's... are old books. there´s no excuse. well, now its enough time, someone has to do something about these books. im sure they have market space. most are not translated, as far as i know. how many young people today do waste their time reading shitty books ? how many of them would like to know about LD ? oh God in my university general Library, theres not even one book ( besides Castaneda ) about LD ( and that includes psychology libary databse )

[Darkmatters]

Well, if somebody has to wake you from a lucid, and at such an inopportune time it seems (ahem!), at least it's somebody who just hands you a bunch of great dreaming books and then goes away! Then you can do a WBTB maybe (though you probably started looking at the books, right?) I applaud your choices - especially The Mind @ Night - great book!